JoyRant build 48 adds mentions!

@whimsical/@retoor has made a mentions crawler (I guess you can call it that?).

joydev://rant/19381730

I‘m using it as a source for mentions now (because devRant's mentions are broken, in case that you didn’t know it)

It can be disabled in the settings, if devRant's mentions will come back one day.

https://devrant.molodetz.nl/preview...

The implementation was a bit tricky but fun:

Molodetz mentions don’t have avatar info, so I‘m pulling avatars from the "encountered users" store, a feature that I implemented a while ago and it comes very handy now.

The "mark as read" is done locally now, for obvious reasons.

A funny side effect is that in theory, now it should be possible to mention users directly in rants too, not just in comments. That wasn’t possible in devRant :)

Thanks to retoor and have fun!

Has anyone noticed ChatGPT glazing getting really bad lately? Every single one of my stupid, bone-headed fucking questions are "insightful" and "important".

FUCK you, you psychopath. Stop manipulating me.

I dunno, but I suspect Google Chrome to do a malloc(8ULL * 1024 * 1024 * 1024); on startup and on tab creation.

Week: 113 (Year 3)

Plans for the weekend?

Question: What would be your last meal before you die?

last Weekend : https://devrant.com/rants/19379346

oh boy

import type { ParseJson } from "json-parser-in-typescript-very-bad-idea-please-dont-use"

type Person = ParseJson<'{ "name": "Jamie Kyle", "twitter": "https://twitter.com/buildsghost" }'>
// {
// "name": "Jamie Kyle",
// } & {
// "twitter": "https://twitter.com/buildsghost"
// }

Job market's gotten way worse. No joke: now, every job I interviewed for requires this:

1) Interview with HR
2) Interview with Hiring Manager
3) Personality test
4) Technical test
5) Interview with CEO

Only if all steps passed and vetted, then ok. It's like we're on a zero-trust policy now. Now even mom&pop shops want technical tests. Tf.

Well, I feel that I need to post it.

https://youtube.com/watch/...

I find it very dangerous to work with folks that prefer speed over quality. I would prefer that folks do not request me to code review if they are going to ignore my comments and push to production without answering all my questions.

Painful but true quote:
"Technology never exists in a vacuum—we’re constrained by our tools
and the social, economic, and historical factors that produced them."

The Pomodoro technique works wonderssssss!

got laid off, back into the job market which I think isn't doing so good

also I'm nonpersonable and untalented so my network is meh at best

if i'm lucky i can qualify for youth in asia /s

In a world where any shareholder can have your job cut away without warning, the freedom fighter is the man brave enough to place a dead man switch.

I love this new era of AI generated cute horrors:

https://djsumdog.com/@FloatingGhost...

Do you think it would be possible, to create a second real identity (acknowledged by government) by using the real name, but switching some or even just one of the letters with a unicode look-alike character?

Well, it's really nice to hear from a client how great it is to work with me, and that they want to work with me on another project next year.

chuffed as fuck.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

That will be all.

So, I'm doing some freelance work for a company...

Holy shit their chatgpt chats.

I swear, they go to the level of import {isOdd} from 'is-odd';

Somehow I feel that I just can't lose any job because I'd be one of the very few able to function whenever openai is down...

I don't know what's wrong with me.

Whenever I interview, it takes me almost 3/4 of the allotted time to grasp the problem. I don't know if it's because I am truly dyslexic, or if I'm really bad under stress / time constraint.

After the interview I was able to finish the problem within 10 minutes, but by then it's just too late.

Can't help but feel like a bad about it.

Harry Potter chimes randomly in my mind...

Time for more weirdness.

My PC suddenly shut off, i repressed on the button, nothing. Unplugged from it everything included my Pi server, keyboard...
Nothing.
I take the computer and its power cord to another room, maybe the multiplug isnt working anymore...
Nothing.
I sit and text someone about it, and suddenly, in my hands, it explodes. Extreme light and sound into my eyes and ears.
The sound in my eyes, the light in my ears.
Now I am amputated from my right arm, "The Great Holy Arch Computer".
My god why!

Get happy everyone https://youtube.com/watch/...

Also makes me want to play the sims

this isn't really a DEVrant because i don't vibe code (or even use AI tools that much), it's more of a "please don't make your app like this"

chatgpt is so fricking pathetic. the company behind it is so fricking paralyzed with fear of liability that they have made the chatbot unable to respond to any question with the slightest undertone of potential unsafety. i asked it a homework problem involving the acceleration of a 20x102mm AA cartridge. i asked it whether a wooden or Steel handle would be better for a splitting axe. i asked it if my homemade lye was safe to dump down a clogged drain. on all three occasions it said that it couldn't "help with anything that would meaningfully facilitate harm", and proceeded to just suggest consumerism or some other nonsense as a "safe alternative". like what the actual heck? life on Earth inherently has risk, that's part of human existence. nobody would enjoy being put in a bubble-wrapped room designed for maximum safety (i know from experience), a bit of risk is what keeps us happy and motivated. i'm not even mad at whatever megacorp made chatgpt, i'm just disappointed. it's like watching a freshly-lobotomized fish flop around on the ground. if anyone makes an AI or something else. please don't do this. just slap on a limitation of liability and indemnity clause into your TOS, please don't lobotomize your chatbot in the name of "safety".

Back from my holiday and we still don't have any code pushed for the backend lmao

"can i get a curry goat rice and peas"
lmfao. trying not to laugh.

https://youtube.com/watch/...

Freaking, some devs should learn how to make websites well. lol. I was hovering over a text, then I let it lose focus and focused my cursor floating halfway between left and right element and it caused an intense strobe effect.

I just can't. lol

The only solution is to disolve the Kingdom of Belgium and the french 5th republic.

We must establish the federal popular republic of Francobelgium.

Germany can have luxemburg.

Death to the king

Omg I hate github. Fuck microsoft I swear those leeches are ruining everything they touch. They're like reverse midas.

Mentions aren't coming up in my notifications. Sorry if I'm missing crap. devRant broke.

Real chads aren't C devs.
Not Assembly ones.
Not R or Haskel, not Matlab.
Not Rust.

ITS FUCKING APL DEVS

Can anyone make a good case for the dereference-property operator being "->"

What the fuck, those keys are nowhere near where I rest my fingers while typing.

Not only that, but it's a sequence of two characters. For what reason!?!?!?

In fact, can anyone tell me what the reason is that we have a specific operator for this operation?! Why not just use the period for everything? If the left hand side is a pointer, the period can dereference and THEN resolve the scope. Otherwise, just resolve the scope to the property. Since resolving the scope on a pointer directly does nothing (IE, if you were to write "pointer.property" in current c/c++/etc), this means the operation is unambiguous and doesn't need to be two operators.

FUCK.